JPH10235218A - Garbage disposer - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a garbage disposer capable of reducing the volume of garbage generated in home by a compact equipment. SOLUTION: In this dispenser, a garbage pulverizer 1 whose charge port 6 is connected to a water discharge port of a sink and by which the garbage charged into its inside is pulverized and discharged together with water, and a dehydration separator 2 for separating the garbage discharged from the pulverizer 1 into the solid and water are housed in a housing case. Thus the volume of the garbage can be reduced by dehydrating the pulverized garbage.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a garbage, which reduces the amount of garbage and reduces the burden on sewage treatment equipment by crushing garbage generated by cooking at home and separating it into solids and moisture. It relates to a processing machine.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art At present, society is supported by abundant materials and new ones are being produced one after another. Therefore, the amount of waste generated by consumption is increasing year by year, and a heavy burden is imposed on the waste administration.

[0003] For this reason, the national and local governments tend to charge more for waste collection, and in order to deal with this, it is extremely important to reduce the amount of waste generated in each household.

[0004] Of the garbage generated at home, garbage generated by cooking contains a large amount of water and is heavy and bulky, so if it is dumped together with other garbage, the amount of garbage increases, The economic burden of charging for waste collection will increase.

Conventionally, for the purpose of reducing the amount of garbage, the above-mentioned garbage is treated by, for example, a garbage crusher (hereinafter, also referred to as a disposer) that crushes garbage finely and discharges the garbage together with water into sewage. Have been.

[0006]

However, crushing of garbage by a disposer, no matter how finely crushed, will contain solids in the wastewater, and flowing such wastewater directly to the sewage, This puts a heavy burden on the processing, and for this reason, the disposal of garbage by a single use of the disposer is currently restricted.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to make it possible to separate garbage crushed by a disposer into solid matter and water, to treat garbage without imposing a burden on sewage treatment, and to reduce garbage. Another object of the present invention is to provide a compact garbage disposer that can be installed at the bottom of a sink of a sink.

[0008]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, an inlet is connected to a drain of a sink, and garbage put into the inside is crushed together with water. A garbage crusher to be discharged and a garbage discharged from the garbage crusher to separate the garbage into solids and water, and a dewatering separator to discharge the water into a common storage case Is adopted.

The dewatering / separating machine is any one of a direct-vacuum suction system, a pressurization system using air pressure, a mechanical press system, and a centrifugal separation system, to which deodorizing, deodorizing, drying and sterilizing functions are added. be able to.

[0010]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

As shown in the figure, a garbage disposer is a disposer 1 for crushing input garbage and discharging it together with water.
And a dewatering separator 2 that receives the garbage discharged from the disposer 1, separates the garbage into solid matter and water, and discharges only the water to sewage, as shown in FIG. It is housed in a common storage case 5 having an opening / closing door 3 and a switch panel 4 and is unitized in a size that can be installed in a space below a sink in a sink.

As shown in FIG. 1, the disposer 1 includes a perforated container 9 and a cutter 10 located in a casing 8 provided with an inlet 6 at an upper end and an outlet 7 on an outer periphery. By rotating this cutter 10 directly by the motor 11, the garbage put into the perforated container 9 from the input port 6 is cut finely in water and discharged from the discharge port 7. The input port 6 is directly connected to the discharge port 12 of the sink as shown in FIG.

The dewatering separator 2 is connected to the discharge port 7 of the disposer 1 through a pipe 13, and the dewatering separator 2 can employ several different systems.

A first embodiment shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 shows a dewatering / separating apparatus 2 of a vacuum suction type. An upper part is opened in an airtight container 15 whose upper part can be opened and closed by a lid 14, and a lower part is opened. A separation vessel 17 serving as a filtration wall 16 made of a fine perforated plate or a wire mesh is housed in a freely removable manner, and a drain pipe 19 is connected to a lower end of a water storage section 18 connected to a lower part of the airtight vessel 15. And solenoid valves 20 and 21 are provided in the middle of the pipe 13 respectively.

An annular space 22 is formed between the inner periphery of the hermetic container 15 and the outer surface of the separation container 17, and a vacuum pump 23 is connected to the space 22 from outside the hermetic container 15.

The dewatering / separating machine 2 of the first embodiment is configured as described above. When garbage generated at the time of cooking is put into the disposer 1 through the outlet 12 of the sink, the motor 11
Garbage is crushed by the rotation of the cutter 10 according to the above.

At this time, both the solenoid valves 20 and 21 are kept open, and the crushed garbage is supplied into the separation vessel 17 of the dewatering separator 2 together with the water.

Since the separation vessel 17 has a filtration wall 16 at the bottom, the solids A remain inside and the moisture is removed from the airtight vessel 15.
From inside, it flows out to the sewage through the discharge pipe 19.

In order to treat the solids A accumulated in the separation vessel 17, as shown in FIG. 2, both the solenoid valves 20 and 21 are closed, and the vacuum pump 23 is operated in this state. The air in the space 22 inside is sucked, and
Since a suction force acts on the inside from the lower part of the filtration wall 16, at this time, moisture adhering to or impregnating the solid matter A is sucked downward, the moisture accumulates in the water storage part 18, and the solid matter A Dewatering and compression by suction reduce bulk significantly.

As described above, when the garbage is separated into solid matter and water, the vacuum pump 23 is stopped, the solenoid valve 21 is opened, and the water in the water storage section 18 is discharged. The separation container 17 may be taken out, and the solid A may be disposed of in a garbage bag. The garbage is reduced into a solid A having a low bulk by pulverization and dehydration. Since water free from water can be discharged, the burden of sewage treatment can be reduced and the cost of treatment can be reduced.

Next, the second dewatering separator shown in FIGS.
This embodiment is a pressurized dehydration system using air pressure, and the same parts as those in the first embodiment are denoted by the same reference numerals and description thereof will be omitted. The same applies to the following embodiments, but the disposer 1 is not shown.

In the dewatering separator 2 according to the second embodiment, a valve 24 for opening and closing communication between the pipe 13 and the airtight container 15 is provided on the lid 14 of the airtight container 15, and the air inside the airtight container 15 is provided on the lid 14. It has a structure in which a pressurizing pump 25 for pressurizing is connected.

In order to separate the garbage crushed by the disposer 1 into solid matter and moisture, as shown in FIG.
And the electromagnetic valve 21 is opened, the garbage after the pulverization flows into the separation container 17, and the solid matter A remains in the container 17,
The water flows out to the discharge pipe 19.

In order to dehydrate the solid A under pressure, first, as shown in FIG. 4, the valve 24 is closed and the pressurizing pump 25 is started, and the pressurized air supplied from the upper portion passes through the crushed garbage. As a result, the attached water is removed, and the solid A and the water are separated.

Next, when the solenoid valve 21 is closed after a lapse of a predetermined time, air pressure acts on the solid matter A from the upper surface.
The solids are compressed to be bulky and the impregnated moisture is squeezed out.

Thereafter, the solenoid valve 21 is opened and the airtight container 15 is opened.
The solid content A is pressurized and drained by repeating the opening and closing of the solenoid valve 21 several times by draining the water in the drainage pipe 19 and then repeating the opening and closing of the electromagnetic valve 21 several times, thereby ensuring that the solid substance A is reduced in weight and stopping the pressurizing pump 25. Thereafter, the separation container 17 may be taken out and the solid matter may be processed.

The dewatering separator 2 according to the third embodiment shown in FIGS. 5 and 6 is of a centrifugal type, and the separation vessel 1 is placed on a rotating disk 27 provided in a vessel 15a to be rotated by a motor 26.
7 is detachably mounted and fixed.

When the garbage crushed from the disposer is supplied into the separation vessel 17 together with water, the solids A remain in the porous separation vessel 17 having a small peripheral wall, and the water is discharged into the discharge pipe 19.
Leaked to

When the motor 26 is started with the solenoid valve 20 closed and the separation container 17 is rotated at a high speed, as shown in FIG.
The solid A and the water are separated by centrifugal force, and the solid A is reduced in volume by dehydration and compression by centrifugal force.
Is stopped, the separation container 17 is taken out and the solid A is treated.

The dewatering separator 2 of the fourth embodiment shown in FIGS. 7 and 8 is of a mechanical press type, in which a separation container 17 similar to that of the first embodiment is housed in a container 15a. A press machine 28 is installed on the upper part of the container 15a. The press machine 28 is provided with a pressurizing plate 31 that moves up and down in the separation container 17 at the lower end of a rod 30 that moves up and down a driving device 29 such as a motor or a cylinder. Is formed.

When crushed garbage flows in from the disposer 1, the solenoid valve 20 is opened and the pressurizing plate 31 stands by at the raised position.

When the crushed garbage flows into the separation container 17 together with the water, only the water flows out, the solids A remain in the container 17 and the press machine 28 is operated with the solenoid valve 20 closed. As shown in FIG. 8, the lowered pressure plate 31 compresses the solid A, squeezes out the water to be impregnated, and lowers the solid A.

Thereafter, the pressure plate 31 is raised, and the separation container 17 is taken out of the container 15a to process the solid A.

In the fifth embodiment of the dewatering / separating machine 2 shown in FIG. 9, a trap 32 is provided between the solenoid valve 20 and the dewatering / separating machine 2 in the middle of the pipe 13, and the garbage pulverized by the disposer 1 is discharged into water. After flowing into the dewatering separator 2 together with the water, a certain amount of water is flowed and stored in the trap 32, thereby preventing the odor generated from the solid A after dewatering from flowing out. .

The deodorization by the trap 32 is performed by the dewatering separator 2 shown in the first to third embodiments.
Can be adopted for any of the above.

In the dewatering separator 2 of the sixth embodiment shown in FIG. 10, a hot air generator 33 is connected to the lid 14, and the dehydrated solid A is dried by hot air. The generator 33 may vaporize a deodorant, a deodorant, or a bactericide and send it together with the warm air. The sixth embodiment is also applied to the dewatering / separating machine 2 of the first to fifth embodiments. Can be adopted. In each embodiment, in addition to deodorization and deodorization, an oil decomposer may be supplied to the solid after dehydration.

[0037]

As described above, according to the present invention, garbage generated during cooking is crushed by a disposer, and the garbage is separated into solids and water by a dewatering separator. It is possible to reduce the amount of waste and to reduce the total amount of waste generated at home, so that it is possible to reduce the cost associated with charging for waste collection.

Further, since the crushed garbage is dewatered, there is no mixing of solid matter in the waste water, the garbage can be flowed to the sewer as it is, and the burden of sewage treatment can be reduced.

Further, deodorizing, deodorizing, drying and disinfecting, and decomposing oil components of the dewatered garbage solids can be performed, and the processing unit is a small unit that can be accommodated in one case. Can be stored in the lower space of the sink, and the input of the garbage crusher is connected to the drain of the sink,
Since it is only necessary to connect the drain pipe of the dewatering separator to the sewage side, it can be easily incorporated into an existing sink.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a longitudinal sectional view showing a first embodiment of a garbage disposer and a dewatering separator.

FIG. 2 is a vertical cross-sectional view showing the same solid pressurized dewatering state.

FIG. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view showing a second embodiment of a garbage processing machine and a dewatering separator.

FIG. 4 is a vertical cross-sectional view showing the same solid pressurized dewatering state.

FIG. 5 is a longitudinal sectional view showing a third embodiment of a dewatering separator.

FIG. 6 is a vertical cross-sectional view showing a dehydrated state of the same solid material.

FIG. 7 is a longitudinal sectional view showing a fourth embodiment of the dewatering separator.

FIG. 8 is a longitudinal sectional view showing a dehydrated state of the solid material according to the embodiment.

FIG. 9 is a longitudinal sectional view showing a fifth embodiment of the dewatering separator.

FIG. 10 is a longitudinal sectional view showing a sixth embodiment of the dewatering separator.

FIG. 11 is a perspective view showing an outer shape of the garbage processing machine.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Garbage crusher (disposer) 2 Dehydration separator 5 Storage case 6 Input port 7 Discharge port 8 Casing 10 Cutter 11 Motor 12 Drain port 14 Cover 15 Airtight container 16 Filter wall 17 Separation container 18 Drainage pipe 20, 21 Solenoid valve 23 Vacuum pump 24 Valve 25 Pressure pump

Claims (6)

[Claims] An input port is connected to a drain port of a sink, and a garbage crusher for crushing garbage put into the inside and discharging the garbage together with water, and receiving garbage discharged from the garbage crusher. A garbage processing machine characterized in that a garbage is separated into solid matter and moisture, and a dewatering separator for discharging moisture is housed in a common storage case. 2. The garbage disposer according to claim 1, wherein the dewatering separator is of a vacuum suction type. 3. The garbage disposer according to claim 1, wherein the dewatering separator is a pneumatic pressurizing system. 4. The garbage processor according to claim 1, wherein the dewatering separator is a mechanical press system. 5. The garbage processor according to claim 1, wherein the dewatering separator is of a centrifugal type. 6. The garbage disposer according to claim 1, wherein the dewatering separator has at least one of deodorizing, deodorizing, drying, and sterilizing functions.